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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2013
Yohta Sakon, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Ohmori, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuka Aoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinji Nohsho, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuyuki Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Masanobu Gondoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Shohei Gohda, Kanagawa, JP;
Yohta Sakon, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Ohmori, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuka Aoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinji Nohsho, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuyuki Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Masanobu Gondoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Shohei Gohda, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cleaning blade, including a strip-shaped elastic blade to contact the surface of a member to be cleaned, traveling on an edge line of the elastic blade, to remove a powder from the surface thereof, wherein the edge line of the elastic blade is impregnated with an ultraviolet curable resin including a fluorinated acrylic monomer, a surface layer harder than the elastic blade is formed on each of an under surface thereof, having the edge line as one line of the under surface and facing the member, and an apical surface thereof, having the edge line as one line of the apical surface and being parallel to a direction of the thickness thereof, and the apical surface is impregnated with the ultraviolet curable resin at a depth of from 50 to 150 μm and the under surface is impregnated therewith at a depth of from 20 to 100 μm.